Deal does not bind Israel

(JNS) — Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Monday morning that the memorandum of understanding reached overnight by Washington and Tehran does not bind the Jewish state.

“Israel is not subject to the United States, and we are an independent and sovereign nation,” he tweeted in Hebrew.

The Israeli government’s duty is to its citizens, its soldiers and the Jewish people, he said.

“Every time we succumbed to international pressure at the expense of Israel’s security, we paid in blood with interest. It was true in the Oslo Accords, it was true in the Lebanon agreement in 20...